Fingers crossed all the gremlins have been banished and we can get back to what Calne Lions do best... bringing the Christmas cheer!
We will be starting on Anchor Road tonight and hopefully getting the Santa Tour back on track.
📸Jane Harriet
So Sorry Folks, we thought we had the music sorted but its stopped again. We are calling it a night tonight to try and sort it so we can be back out tomorrow.
The weather held for us last night and Santa & our Elves loved seeing everyone.
Tonight we will be starting on Low Lane and continuing our tour of Calne. We can't wait to spread some more Christmas cheer with you all!!
📸Jessica Staples-Preston
Arh brilliant 🤩 I thought I missed itxxx
Fantastic night yet again! Absolutely love coming out with you guys
Very nice 👍 Shass x
Chania Glinn tonight’s the night 🎅🏼
Jordan Venant tonight xx
Another wet one last night that curtailed our Santa Tour. Hoping for a dryer night tonight. Before we got rained off, we were able to make a visit to Deceuninck for their family Christmas event. A huge thank you to Deceuninck for their very generous donation to our collection.
Tonight we will be starting off at Horsebrook and continuing down our Santa Route (which is pinned to the top of our Facebook Page and updated daily).
Will you be doing abbard way/ the nap tonight do you think?
Thank you for visiting us at Deceuninck yesterday. My 3yr old is autistic and a previous visit to meet Santa was a bit of a disaster. This was perfect for him ♥️
At Stoke Meadow last night.
What's Christmas without a few gremlins? A huge THANK YOU to the husbands of some of our volunteer Elves, who leapt into action last night with their jerry cans and refuelled the generator! Santa says you are top of the Nice List!!
Tonight we continue our Santa Tour, starting on the Stoke Meadow estate.
Remember, we love seeing your photos (and using them on these posts), so if you get a good shot of Santa and our Elves (and you are happy for us to use them on Facebook and our website) then please send them in to us.
See you later!!
We had another fantastic night last night. We had comments that our music was carrying well. Listen out for us, so you know we are coming!
Tonight we will pick up where we left off last night and continue along Shelburne Road.
If you would like to donate but don't have any cash to put in our buckets, there are different ways you can donate.
When out with Santa, our collectors will have card readers, we have a QR code you can scan to access our sum up portal or you can donate up to £20 by text message.
Text SLEIGH and the donation amount to 70470, for example to donate £1 text SLEIGH to 70470, to donate £5 text SLEIGH5 to 70470 or to donate £10 text SLEIGH10 to 70470 (texts cost your donation plus one standard rate message)
If you can't afford to donate, that is fine; come out and give Santa and our Elves a smile and a wave!
Good old Santa! Glad your son enjoyed seeing us!
My son loved getting a pic with Santa last night. Was lovely that he came down and got selfies with all the kids! 😀
Georgia Holmes don’t forget your annual pic
Thank you for everyone who came out to see us last night as we continued our Santa Tour, we loved all the waves, smiles and dances (there were some very energetic dancers among our younger Santa Fans last night!)
Tonight we will resume our travels, starting with Wessington Park.
We know you are all excited to see us, but we can't gauge how much ground we will cover in a night (it is all down the driver and number of volunteer elves we have out), so its hard to answer questions about whether we think we will get to any specific street in a night.
We are out from 6-8pm and you can follow our progress on www.calnelions.org/santa-tracker
Heard you at Anchor Road end of Brewers Lane, when you were in Churchill Close!
You made our boys in Ebor Paddock very happy last night… Lions always mark the start of our Christmas season!
We enjoyed seeing you while out running with our club!
Sharon McKnight
We got off to a rather soggy start last night and had to end early as our elves were drenched by a heavy downpour.
The forecast for tonight looks better, so we will pick up where we left off last night. We will continue along Quemerford, starting by the post office and working our way down our route into town.
See you tonight!
Wen u coming to woodroffe Square
Thank you Calne Lions 🎅 we had a very excited little girl! ✨
Hi do u think you'll get as far as Oldbury prior tonight ?
Is Marty Pellow with us tonight ? As currently it’s wet wet wet 🙈🙈🙈
Stay safe !!! You are all super stars for everything you do xxxxx
We've had some questions come in about our Santa Tour this year. Hopefully the below should help answer any queries you have.
Will Santa becoming to the knapp
You do a fantastic job - well done 😊
Thanks for coming out in the rain tonight - great to see Santa 🎅
Tonight's the night we kick off the Calne Lions Santa Tour. We'll be starting at the top of our Santa Route (posted separately) and can't wait to see you all.
Santa will be out between 6-8pm each night, we will be knocking on doors, so if you would prefer we not knock on your door, please put a note up and we will pass you by.
Our collectors will happily take any donations you would like to give, but please don't think you can't come out and enjoy Santa if you can't donate.
If you get any good photos and are happy to have them used on our future posts, please email them to santa@calnelions.org
Do you think you will make cherhill view tonight? Trying to work out if I should half bedtime or not 🙈
Will there be a Santa live route tracker this year??
Ewan Hillman
Dan x
🎅Here's our Santa Route around Town.
We'll start at the top and work our way down. 🎅
As the days pass, we'll cross off the areas already visited and list the villages as we near the end of our tour of Calne.
Not all streets are listed but we will do our best to get round everyone - if your street isn't listed, look for a nearby street or area, we'll likely visit around the same time.
What time does it start
What day are you starting?
Peanuts Assemble Nicy Clayton Lucy Tryner
Chania Glinn 🎅🏼
Dan x
No date🎅
Wow! What a fantastic evening we had yesterday! Calne Lions were honoured to lead the Lantern Parade with our Sleigh, Santa and Rory the Lion.
We will be starting our tour of Calne tomorrow night, but wanted to give some shout outs...
Thank you to Harrington Flat Roofing who have sponsored the Christmas Tree on the back of the sleigh again this year - it looked beautiful all lit up last night. Check out Harrington Flat Roofing's Facebook page for details of a special offer running in December.
Thank you alsEartunes RadioRadio who came to the rescue when our old amp stopped working. We have been given a replacement which means we can blast out all the usual Christmas tunes, as we tour the town - what would a Calne Lions Christmas be without our playlist? We will be playing Wham, so be warned?!
Finally thank you to all our Friends of Lions, volunteers and the town itself. Without all of your support, we wouldn't be able to do all the fantastic work, helping our community, throughout the year.
See you on the sleigh! 🎅🦁
Is there an itinerary for the float this year year?
Brilliant I do miss being a Lion and enjoying going out in the sleigh good fun and mince pies and hot drink back at mine. LOVED every minute so good look to you all and happy collecting 💕
We will be taking part in the Lantern Parade tomorrow night, Santa cannot wait to get out to see everyone, before he starts his proper tour of the town.
Here is our intended route , which we will be starting on Monday. We will start at 6pm and work down the list, until 8pm each night, up until 23rd December.
We can't possibly list all the streets in Calne (it would be almost as long as Santa's nice list) but we aim to visit as many roads as we can reach (some areas are just too tight or have too many cars parked for the sleigh to get through).
If your road isn't listed, look for a nearby road and we will likely visit on the same day. We will post an updated list for surrounding villages, once we have completed Calne.
We cannot say exactly when we will visit a specific road, in advance - there are too many variables (weather, driver, number of collectors etc) but we will post each morning with the starting point for that evening.
Hi just wondering if your doing oak close cant see any of the streets nearby either
Can't wait to join in and help again! 🌲🎅
Will you be coming to mallard close
Iain Hamilton
Ewan Hillman
The sleigh is ready, the play list is good to go and Santa has got his big red coat out of the wardrobe...
We are honoured to be leading the Lantern Parade again on Saturday, as Calne turns its lights on and kicks off Christmas.
Keep an eye out on our Facebook page, where we will be publishing our Santa Route later this week. We will start our travels around town next Monday (1st December).
Can we steal your image for our posts? 🙏
Good luck will be thinking of you every time you go out Stay safe xxxxx
Calne Lions are getting ready to bring Santa and our sleigh around town (our first outing being the Lights Switch On next Saturday).
Last night, however, was a chance for us to let our hair down at our annual Charter (essentially the anniversary of our Club forming). We were joined by other local Lions and Rotary clubs and guests from many local groups we are proud to work with and help throughout the year.
Huge thanks to all our guests for joining us, Goatacre Village Hall, Annie's Catering for the lovely food, David Marshall & UFO Discos who kept the dance floor full all night and to our amazing organising committee who ensured everyone had a fabulous time!
Thank you for inviting me to play for you. A pleasure to play for such a deserving crowd who were clearly up for a dance! Rock on guys n gals.
Goatacre Village Hall
SANTA NEEDS YOU!!!
Calne Lions are getting ready to bring their sleigh around Calne again, this December, but there are few days we are a low on volunteers to accompany Santa as he spreads some Christmas Cheer.
If you would like to help then log onto our Santa Rota and see if there are any days with vacancies that you could help. If you would like to find out more then email santa@calnelions.org
Can I please humbly request you take Last Christmas by Wham off the play list. Getting whamaggedoned by Santa every year makes me sad! 😂
Calne Lions were honored to be a part of the Town's Remembrance commemorations this morn#wewillrememberthemrThem
good to see you all doing your pat xx
Earlier today, Lion Jo visited Paws for Pets (pet foodbank) Calne Wiltshire with a donation of food for pet owners who need a little help. Calne Lions are always pleased to support our community.
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Calne Lions were very happy to support the Men Walking & Talking Group.Men Walking & Talking Group thank Calne Lions for generous £500 donation - calnenews.com/calne-news/men-walking-talking-group-thank-calne-lions-for-generous-gbp500-donation
Calne Lions
Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts, this means so much and will enable us to be more prominent in the community in the coming months. Looking forward as well to assisting with the Santa this year 💙💙💙💙
Calne Lions would like to spread the word about Dave & Ewe.
You may have heard about the amazing work Dave & Ewe Animal Rescue, based near Hilmarton, does; offering therapeutic farm sessions for local children. Dave is extremely passionate about building up relationships and confidence with the children through his various therapy animals, teaching children about animal care, life skills, decision making, problem solving and about themselves.
You can learn more about the wonderful work Dave & Ewe does by checking out his Facebook page facebook.com/DaveandEwe or website daveandewe.co.uk/
Unfortunately, the lease on his current premises runs out next September (2026) and Dave needs to find somewhere to relocate, which has about 20 acres with barn and accommodation.
He is struggling to find anywhere suitable, so if you have or know of any land he can relocate to then please PM Calne Lions or email communitysupport@calnelions.org
Home - Dave and Ewe - Therapeutic farm experiences in Calne
daveandewe.co.uk
Dave & Ewe is a an animal rescue setting and farming community endeavour sustained through a small business run by Dave Buscombe, based around therapeutic